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Meanwhile, political polarization siphons American attention/concern for the #climatecrisis. Lake Mead so diminished (lower than any point since filled 80 yrs ago), sunken boats dot the landscape. (📷 @locherphoto @AP_Images)

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All this business with air space, the franchise on higher powers. Or, is it just about more room to run? (📷 @stef__reynolds, @tombrennerphoto, #SupremeCourt)

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Shot by @SmileItsNathan in DC yesterday remind us how much it’s about gender power. #RoeOverturned

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Informed by so much shock & dejection, the animation in Brandon’s photo only sharpens the sign by 24-yr-old Rachel Nix in DC and the words of abolitionist Mariame Kaba: *Let this radicalize you rather than lead you to despair.* 📷 #BrandonBell @GettyImages

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On the clock, indeed, as we explored this visceral image by @evelynpix of one of the last procedures at Planned Parenthood in Birmingham.

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On #ChattingThePictures, we read this powerful abortion photo by @evelynpix from a @PPFA clinic in AL just weeks before SCOTUS leak. As we note, these scenes have become more intimate w the crackdown, the procedure now literally on the clock. Watch now: https://www.readingthepictures.org/2022/05/abortion-on-the-clock/

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